KNOWN_BASES: add Cactus Needle

scan.py

@@ -309,6 +309,15 @@ KNOWN_BASES = {
         # Omni-modal (text+vision+audio), InklingForConditionalGeneration.
         # vocab 201024 + eos 200006 = OpenAI o200k/harmony tokenizer heritage — the ex-OpenAI tell.
     },
+    "needle": {
+        "name": "Cactus Needle (26M pure-attention encoder-decoder, edge tool-calling)",
+        "vocab_size": 8192,
+        "model_type_patterns": ["needle"],
+        # Cactus Compute Needle, NeedleForCausalLM (actually encoder-decoder): 12 enc + 8 dec layers,
+        # PURE ATTENTION (no FFN), GQA 8H/4KV, RoPE, ZCRMSNorm (zero-centered), gated residuals,
+        # d_model 512, vocab 8192 SentencePiece, ~26M params, INT4 QAT. Distilled from Gemini 3.1
+        # (honestly disclosed — distillation leaves no weight-level trace). On-device function-calling.
+    },
 }